Pattern of conferences A/RES/74/252 11. Expresses concern regarding the recurring extension of the work of the Fifth Committee during the second part of the resumed session of the General Assembly and the impact of such an extension on the services provided by the Secretariat, including the availability of conference rooms and language services; II Utilization of conference-servicing resources 12. Reaffirms the practice that, in the use of conference rooms, priority must be given to meetings of Member States; 13. Calls upon the Secretary-General and Member States to adhere to the guidelines and procedures contained in the administrative instruction for the authorization of the use of United Nations premises for meetings, conferences, special events and exhibits; 5 14. Notes that ST/AI/416 of 26 April 1996, which regulates the use of United Nations premises, has been updated and superseded at Headquarters in New York by ST/AI/2019/4 of 23 September 2019, and encourages the Directors-General of other conference-servicing duty stations to review and update as necessary their information circulars governing the use of United Nations premises; 15. Emphasizes that such meetings, conferences, special events and exhibits must be consistent with the purposes and principles of the United Nations; 16. Notes that the overall interpretation utilization factor for all calendar bodies at the four main duty stations was 82 per cent in 2018, 81 per cent in 2017 and 80 per cent in 2016, 2015 and 2014, which met the established benchmark of 80 per cent; 17. Urges those intergovernmental bodies whose average interpretation utilization factor has for the past six years been below the benchmark of 80 pe r cent to take that factor into account when planning their future sessions in order to achieve that benchmark; 18. Reiterates its request to intergovernmental bodies to review their meeting entitlements and to plan and adjust their programmes of work on the basis of their actual utilization of conference-servicing resources in order to improve their efficient use and to achieve optimum utilization of conference services; 19. Urges the secretariats and bureaux of bodies that underutilize their conference-servicing resources to work more closely with the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management of the Secretariat and to consider changes to their programmes of work, as appropriate, including adjustments based on previous patterns of recurring agenda items, with a view to making improvements in their interpretation utilization factors; 20. Recognizes that late starts and unplanned early endings seriously affect the interpretation utilization factor of those bodies, invites the secretariats an d bureaux of the bodies to pay adequate attention in this regard, and welcomes their efforts to inform the Secretariat in a timely manner of any such changes in order to allow conference services to be smoothly redeployed to other meetings; 21. Requests the Committee on Conferences to consult those bodies that have consistently utilized less than the applicable benchmark of their allocated resources for the past six years, with a view to making appropriate recommendations in order to achieve the optimum utilization of conference-servicing resources; __________________ 5 19-22680 ST/AI/416. 3/13